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I'm a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I specialize in philosophy of war, game theory, contractarianism, and theodicy (the Problem of Evil). I am bald, fat, and ugly, but my wife loves me, so I don't care.

• CURMUDGEONISM # 643 – ON THE HIJACKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Am I answerable for what was said in Curmudgeonism # 618 (below) when it’s entirely possible I didn’t write it? The technology is now such that anyone with a little savvy can hijack your blog or social media account and… Read More ›

• CURMUDGEONISM # 618 – OF YO, YA, AND TARDS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  It’s a little known fact – probably because it isn’t one – that as well as its gendered third person pronouns – he and his, she and hers – for a long time English had gendered second person pronouns. If… Read More ›

• MONIKA’S MOM AND PIUS XII

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Monika Schaefer, a Jasper, Alberta woman, and daughter of post-war German immigrants, is currently in a German prison awaiting trial for Holocaust denial, a criminal offense in that and several other European countries, though not in Canada. The charge was… Read More ›

• NOTES FROM THE JUNGLE

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  Whenever I give a talk, one of my favorite opening schticks is, “Of the things I care least about, the historicity of the Empty Tomb and global warming are pretty much in a dead heat. What I do care about,… Read More ›

• THE CRITICAL THINKING PROFESSOR’S DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

    S asserts that not-p. S is paid. Therefore S is paid to assert that not-p. The likelihood of the truth of not-p varies inversely with what one is paid to assert it. If one’s been exposed to the evidence… Read More ›

• THE MIGRANT DILEMMA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  By a human right, as distinct from a civil right, is meant, presumably, one one has independently of the polity to which she happens to belong. But a human right does not extend between sovereign jurisdictions. By this I mean… Read More ›

• NO SYMPATHY FOR SARAH SANDERS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on July 31, 2018 • ( 2 )

  To the best of my knowledge, since the fall of Apartheid there’s no jurisdiction anywhere in the world under which it’s illegal for me to prefer a white woman in my bed to a black one. But in most jurisdictions,… Read More ›

• PEOPLE SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Correlation is not causation. Yes it is. In fact that’s all it is. Isn’t that exactly what Hume showed us? You can’t see a cause, you can only infer it. And you can only infer it from a correlation. Sheesh!… Read More ›

• JURAL NULLIFICATION

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  What’s doing the work in justifying some political arrangement we’ve made is not whatever the official justification might be – as, for example, in the preamble to the Second Amendment to the American Constitution – but rather that in virtue… Read More ›

• RES JUDICATA

  By paulosophicalvimplications on August 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Res judicata is Latin for a matter that’s already been decided. Here’s one: It’s a res judicata that no conversation, including this one, can get off the ground unless some things are taken to be a res judicata. Like what?… Read More ›